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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:07:00PM +0100, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
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> 	Hi,
>=20
> Quoting from nvi sources, this looks like the desired behaviour:
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>          /*
>           * Historically, initial commands (the -c option) weren't=20
> executed
>           * until a file was loaded, e.g. "vi +10 nofile", followed by an
>           * :edit or :tag command, would execute the +10 on the file=20
> loaded
>           * by the subsequent command, (assuming that it existed).  This
>           * applied as well to files loaded using the tag commands, and=
=20
> we
>           * follow that historic practice.  Also, all initial commands=20
> were
>           * ex commands and were always executed on the last line of the=
=20
> file.
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> (see src/usr.bin/vi/common/exf.c)

Hmm, strange.  Probably this just needs to be mentioned in the manpage to
avoid this type of confusion, then.

Regards,
Peter
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